THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP   DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING SHADOW MINISTER FOR WOMEN MEMBER FOR SYDNEY THE HON CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT TACKLING CHILDHOOD OBESITY WITH HEALTHY EATING IN SCHOOLS Hundreds of thousands of Australian schoolchildren will learn healthy food

THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP   DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING SHADOW MINISTER FOR WOMEN MEMBER FOR SYDNEY THE HON CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT LABOR’S PLAN TO SUPPORT WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS A Shorten Labor Government will deliver Australia’s first ever National Sexual

BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SHADOW MINISTER FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT LABOR’S $170 MILLION INVESTMENT IN MEDICARE HEART HEALTH CHECKS A Shorten Labor Government will take on the country’s biggest killer – cardiovascular disease – with

More than 2.5 million Australians have opted out of the My Health Record, showing just how badly the botched Liberal rollout damaged public trust in this important reform. Under Labor questioning in Senate estimates on Wednesday, the Australian Digital Health Agency revealed 2,517,921 opted out of the system before the end of January. And that

CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT ANNE CHARLTON LABOR CANDIDATE FOR ROBERTSON EMMA MCBRIDE MP MEMBER FOR DOBELL PAT CONROY MP MEMBER FOR SHORTLAND LABOR TO IMPROVE END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR THE NSW CENTRAL COAST A Shorten Labor Government will build a new palliative care hospice at Woy Woy, ensuring

SPEECH TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB “Delivering on the promise of Medicare: Labor’s vision for a truly universal health system” CANBERRA WEDNESDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2019 Thank you Sabra for that introduction and thanks everyone for having me here today. Tomorrow, Bill Shorten and the Prime Minister will deliver their annual Closing the Gap statements to

LABOR’S PLAN FOR LONG-TERM HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM A Shorten Labor Government will break the “boom and bust” cycle of national health policy by creating a powerful new expert commission to develop and oversee the long-term reforms needed to ensure every Australian can access affordable, high-quality health care. If elected this year, Labor will establish a

SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH INTO PARALYSIS AND SPINAL CORD INJURY A Shorten Labor Government will provide $1.65m in support for the Perry Cross Spinal Research Foundation to help them find a cure for paralysis and for the Foundation’s functional therapy program. There are approximately 15,000 Australians living with a spinal cord injury. Every day, one more Australian experiences spinal cord

BILL SHORTEN MP LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION CATHERINE KING MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MIKE KELLY MP MEMBER FOR EDEN-MONARO FIONA PHILLIPS LABOR’S CANDIDATE FOR GILMORE LABOR WILL BUILD THE EUROBODALLA HOSPITAL A Shorten Labor Government will boost health services for people in the Eurobodalla Shire by investing $25 million to help build

CATHERINE KING SHADOW MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND MEDICARE MEMBER FOR BALLARAT JULIAN HILL MEMBER FOR BRUCE LABOR TO FUND DANDENONG HOSPITAL UPGRADES A Shorten Labor Government will improve health care for the people of Melbourne’s south by investing in urgent upgrades to Dandenong Hospital. Labor’s $14.5 million redevelopment of the hospital’s outdated outpatient and day